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Introduction
 | The Department holds symposia on the general subject «Educators and Programmes about the Acropolis». These provide a platform for dialogue between educators with common interests in teaching through our cultural environment. The Athenian Acropolis because of its importance in the curricullum provides the impetus and incitement for educators to proceed with their projects and to develop their own ideas. Thus far eight symposia have been organised (1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004). Proceedings or summaries of the papers given at the symposia have been published.
Participants in these symposia are 150-200 educators and some 15-20 papers are presented each time. The value of the meetings is evident in the multidisciplinary character of the reports. The 150 reports and proceedings comprise today an important and rich aggregate of projects related to the Acropolis that have been applied by teachers. |
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 | Over the years reports on some 120 applied projects have been added to the departmental archive.
These definitive results of teaching illustrate and describe in the best possible way the process itself of teaching that has been followed each time. The interested educator is able to find original programmes about the Acropolis and its epoch, which contain new ideas, methods and applications that have been created by colleagues with the same background, the same possibilities and the same goals. |
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Catalogue of Symposia |
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1st Symposium“Educators and Programs about the Acropolis”, Center for the Acropolis Studies, May 9, 1991
28 speakers took part in the 1st Symposium; from the 14 schools represented 9 were public schools and 5 private.
Of these, 2 schools were International and 1 Special, 4 were primary level schools and 10 were of secondary level.
One school was from the provinces, namely Davlia in the prefecture of Fokis.
In all 180 people attended the Symposium
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2nd Symposium“Educators and Programs about the Acropolis”, Center for the Acropolis Studies, 26 May, 1993
20 speakers took part in the 2nd meeting and presented 17 papers. The participants represented one Children’s Library and 16 schools, of which 12 were public and 4 private. Of the latter one was International and one Special.
Three schools were primary schools and 13 were of secondary school level.
Three schools came from the provinces: Volos, Harakas at Crete, and Tranovalto at Kozani.
A total of 240 individuals attended the Symposium coming from 19 different cities.
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3rd Symposium“Educational Programs about the Acropolis”, Center for the Acropolis Studies, 15 June, 1994
The 3rd Symposium comprised 33 speakers who delivered 19 papers. One presentation combined the work of some 57 teachers from various schools in the Athens area. The teachers had divided up their task into five units.
Two speakers from the arts sector presented proposals they developed with various schools.
The remaining 30 speakers were representatives from one Children’s Library and 15 schools: 7 public and 8 private.
Two of the latter were International. Four of these schools were elementary and 11 were of secondary level.
Two schools were from the provinces: from the island of Syros and from Thessaloniki.
In total, the meeting was attended by 230 people from 19 cities, in addition to the Attica region.
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4th Symposium“Educational Programs about the Acropolis”, Center for the Acropolis Studies, 11 May, 1996
At the 4th Symposium 25 speakers participated giving 20 reports.
They represented one public library, the National Technical University of Athens and 18 schools, of which 13 were public and five private.
Of the private schools two were International and two Special. Six were primary schools and 12 secondary.
Three papers came from the provinces, from Perahora, Serres and the island of Chios.
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5th Symposium“Educational Programs about the Acropolis”, Center for the Acropolis Studies, 11 May, 1998
During the Symposium 11 reports were presented by 14 speakers who represented 7 schools, of wihch 6 were public, one was International school, in addition to one public library, one Art Gallery and the Dodecanese Center of Educational Programs of the Ministry of Culture. 5 were elementary schools, 3 were of the secondary level and 2 Institutions worked with both levels. Two schools were Special.
Two of the speakers had given reports at earlier Symposia; everybody else spoke for the first time. Four papers came from the provinces: one from the island of Rhodes, one from Larissa, and two from Sparta.
Two hundred teachers took part in the meeting, who came from all over Greece.
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6th Symposium“Educational Programs about t the Acropolis”, Center for the Acropolis Studies, 12 May, 2001
The 6th Symposium was held on Saturday, the 12th of May, 2001 at the Center for the Acropolis Studies.
17 reports were given by 18 speakers, who represented 19 schools, of which 16 were public schools of the Attica region, one private school of Athens, the 1st and the 2nd Elementary schools of Poros and the public Mobile Library of Karditsa.
Three schools had elementary level of education and 14 were of secondary level.
155 teachers took part in the Symposium.
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7th Symposium“Educational Programs about the Acropolis”, Special feature: Museum Kits
“Let’s Go to the Acropolis” & “A Greek Temple”, Center for the Acropolis Studies,
10 May, 2003
The 7th Symposium was dedicated to the two educational museum kits “Let’s Go to the Acropolis” and “A Greek Temple”, and presented the great project of creating and supplying our ‘third generation’ of museum kits to about 160 institutions in Greece and 85 outside the country.
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8th Symposium“Educational Programs about the Acropolis”, Special Subject:
The Parthenon Frieze and the Panathenaic FestivalCenter for the Acropolis Studies,
15 May, 2004
The 8th Symposium featured as its special subject the Parthenon Frieze and the Panathenaic Festival to complete a great program about the Panathenaia that was organized by our Service this year as a contribution to simultaneous events towards the Olympic Games in Athens.
100 schools took part in the program. They came from 18 prefectures of Greece (about 15.000 students of all ages).
We cooperated with those schools throughout the school year offering seminars and educational material to them
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